I'm back?

Well, hey. It's only been three years. I fell off my blogcycle for lots of reasons, and couldn't really find any good ones to get back on. And while my own need to vent, express, create or just find some kind of catharsis is writing might not be the best reasons for coming back to it . . . as the emperor in Amadeus says (thank you Jeffrey Jones): "There it is".

I spend too much time being outraged and angry. I do. And not enough time doing things that might ease or combat such emotions. That is a failing, perhaps even character flaw, that I need to address, but, wow, do I not need to do that here. Scary. But writing has always been good for me. It allows me to process in a different way, it gives an outlet to things, and it just feels good. I maintained from the beginning that this blog was for me (not enough people read it for it to be anything else anyway) so those seem like good enough reasons. 

I am going to try to do a number of things differently this time around:

- I am going to do less long-form essay-style writing. That was one of the reasons I fell off last time as it became time consuming and demanding. 

- I am going to try to be less demanding of myself that everything be reasoned, researched and somehow justified. Maybe it is a byproduct of social media (short, unfounded, intransigent, transient) and the ongoing demise of responsible journalism, but if I can constantly be assaulted by random opinion and utter nonsense, maybe I should just join in. I'm as full of shit as anybody else, so I'm totally qualified. 

- I am going to try and balance outraged diatribes with random fun - but for sure no promises on that one considering much of what drove me to pick this up again. But maybe it will drive to to seek out and extol things that don't suck.

So I'm back. If you are a returning fan, thanks for coming back. If you're a new reader, welcome and heads up. If you are here to gainsay, argue or just marvel at how misguided and wrong I am, um, okay.

Getting on with it now.